Notes and Realizations Week Four

Feelings/Shapes:

Symmetrical                                        Asymmetrical

• Content                                   Apprehensive
• Order                                      Unevenness
• Calm                                       Grieving
• Balanced                                 Anger
• Relaxed                                   Chaos
• Equal                                      Hostility
• Unity                                      Unstable
• Wholeness                              Uneasy
• Ease                                        Broken
• Circle                                      Unbalanced
• Square                                    Rhombus
• Equilateral Triangle                Scalene Triangle

Body:

Symmetrical                                   Asymmetrical

• Bones                                    Organs
• Muscles                                 Muscles
• Skin

Choreography wise (but not always) modern art/dance tends to be more asymmetrical, and ballet tends to be more symmetrical.

Three kinds of shapes:  Curved (both), twisted (easiest asymmetrical), straight (easiest symmetrical)

Strange space design- subverting etiquette 

How to make a blank stage into strange space?

For assignment 2

• Foreground and background
• Depth and width
• Simple transitions (they should be invisible)